Sunday, April 09, 2006

Another White House is buying silence - The Boston Globe

Another White House is buying silence - The Boston Globe:

"THE NEXT thing you know, President Bush will channel Richard Nixon to say, ''I am not a crook.'

The clock has started on whether Bush will make this declaration. Court documents released this week show that I. Lewis ''Scooter' Libby, the former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, has testified that both Cheney and President Bush authorized him to leak classified intelligence about Iraq in July 2003.

The leak scandal, which has Libby facing trial for lying and obstruction of justice, began as an effort to mop up the mess created when Bush falsely claimed a half-year earlier in his State of the Union address that Saddam Hussein was trying to acquire uranium in Africa. Libby was supposed to leak intelligence reports in a crass attempt to blame the intelligence community for bad intelligence. The high point of the scandal was the exposing of undercover CIA official Valerie Plame Wilson."

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